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v3.0.0 — 2026-06-17

Big release — bundling the open feature requests + Catch-up TV.

💬 Join us on Telegram — Settings → About now shows the OwnTV Telegram group link with a
QR code you can scan from your phone to join the community (also added to the README).

✨ New features

  • Browse the TV Guide timeline — navigating the guide is now two-stage: press Right on a channel
    to select its whole programme row, then OK to step in and move through programmes with
    Left/Right (the row scrolls with you). OK on a programme opens it (watch / Watch from start
    for catch-up), and Up/Down jumps to the next channel at the same time. Back steps back out.
  • Catch-up TV (archive) — for providers that offer it, the TV Guide now lets you watch programmes
    that already aired    . When you have catch-up channels, the guide extends back in time (up to ~2
    days, depending on your EPG) — scroll left to reach earlier programmes, open one and pick Watch
    from start     to replay it from the archive (seekable, with a progress bar). The guide opens at now,
    with past shows to the left. Works with Xtream (tv_archive) and M3U playlists with catchup tags.
    If catch-up plays the wrong programme, Settings → Playback → Catch-up time lets you set the
    timezone it uses — your device's, or a manual UTC offset (UTC−12…+14) — that your provider needs.
  • Auto-match your channels to the guide — the TV Guide has a new Auto-match EPG button that
    links channels whose tvg-id is missing or doesn't line up with your EPG feed by matching them by
    name     (ignoring HD/country tags etc.). Confident matches are applied automatically; the rest are
    shown in a quick review list to accept or skip (with Accept all / Skip all shortcuts).
    Matches are saved per profile and survive re-syncing. (Fixes #13.)
  • Match a channel's EPG from the Guide — long-press a channel in the TV Guide, then choose
    Auto-match (match just that channel by name) or Pick manually (choose its guide channel from
    the full list, or clear the override). The choice is saved per profile and survives re-syncing. (Fixes #10.)
  • See what's coming up in Live TV — the channel info overlay now shows a "Later" row with the
    next few programmes after Now/Next, so you can see the upcoming schedule without opening the Guide.
    (Fixes #11.)
  • Change channels with the D-pad — while watching a channel fullscreen with the controls
    hidden, D-pad Up/Down — plus the media ⏮/⏭ keys and CH+/CH− — now switch channels, so
    remotes without dedicated channel buttons (e.g. Fire TV) can zap too. When the controls are showing,
    Up/Down navigate them as before. Zapping also wraps around — past the last channel it loops to the
    first (and vice-versa) instead of dead-ending. (Fixes #9.)
  • Sort the TV Guide — the Guide has its own sort button: A–Z, Provider order, Live TV
    (mirrors your Live TV sort), or Catch-up (channels with archive first, so you can find them fast).
    (Fixes #12.)
  • See a channel's real resolution before you watch — the Live TV preview now shows the actual
    stream resolution     (e.g. 1080p, 720p, 4K) as a badge on the preview, so a channel named
    "…4K" that's really 1080p no longer fools you.

🐛 Bug fixes

  • New playlists show up immediately — after deleting a playlist and adding another, Live TV / Movies /
    Series now refresh right away instead of staying empty until you restarted the app.
  • Huge playlists import fully again — some Xtream panels cut off very large movie/series lists
    mid-download, which aborted the whole import with an "Unterminated string…" error and left you
    unable to sign in. Now, if the bulk list truncates, OwnTV automatically fetches it category by
    category     (small requests the server can handle) so you get your full library — and items keep
    populating as it goes. (Fixes #15.)
  • Faster channel switching in Live TV — switching channels no longer feels slow or briefly "broken".
    The player now recognises that the previous stream's cleanup isn't the new stream failing, so it
    skips the needless retries/backoff (and the occasional false "Couldn't play this stream" flash) that
    could delay the preview. The Live preview pane also shows a loading spinner while a stream is
    opening. (Thanks to @codeVerine — PR #14.)
  • Left from the channel list returns to your category — pressing Left into the category rail now
    lands on the folder you're actually in (e.g. the current channel's category) instead of jumping to the
    search box at the top. The category search is still there — press Up from the top category to reach it.
  • "Now watching" card shows the right channel — the channel info card no longer keeps the previous
    channel's name after a quick zap; it updates the instant the stream changes. (#9)

What's Changed

  • Fix slow Live TV preview after channel changes by @codeVerine in #14

New Contributors

Full Changelog: v2.2.4...v3.0.0

Contributors

codeVerine
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